Skype on Ubuntu 12.04.2

Hi Everyone,

I've just installed a fresh Ubuntu 12.04.2 amd64 and try to install Skype, but all fails:

1. Original Skype from Skype.com says I have troubles with libqt-dbus.i386 (seems, it requires older lib)
2. Skype from launchpad or Ubuntu partner repo says I need skype-bin, but when I say to install skype-bin the following error rises: skype-bin:i386 : Depends: libqt4-dbus:i386 (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqt4-network:i386 (>= 4:4.8.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqt4-xml:i386 (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqtcore4:i386 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqtgui4:i386 (>= 4:4.8.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqtwebkit4:i386 (>= 2.2~2011week36) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: sni-qt:i386 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Re: Skype on Ubuntu 12.04.2

First you should fix the broken packages. If you have synaptic package manager installed, go to to edit and fix broken packages. After they have been fixed try installing Skype from the Ubuntu software center. All dependencies should be installed then.

Re: Skype on Ubuntu 12.04.2

Originally Posted by gifford

First you should fix the broken packages. If you have synaptic package manager installed, go to to edit and fix broken packages.

I don't use Synaptic PM, but the regular Ubuntu Software Center.
I fixed broken packages by means of: sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get -f install. There are no mistakes, nor any packages to be installed/updated/etc.

Re: Skype on Ubuntu 12.04.2

I just wanted to add, that I have Ubuntu 12.04.2 at office, but it was an upgrade from 12.04 -> 12.04.1, all is just fine, but this is a fresh install.

I tried to reinstall all dependencies once again and force dpkg to install Skype, but it doesn't start saying I don't have: error while loading shared libraries: libQtDBus.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Re: Skype on Ubuntu 12.04.2

Purge was successful. The following error appeared during install of libqt4 -> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libqt3-mt-dev : Depends: libfontconfig1-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxft-dev but it is not going to be installed

I tried to install libxft-dev, but the following:
vladimiry@questy-ubu-ENVY:~$ sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1-dev libxft-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libfontconfig1-dev : Depends: libexpat1-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
vladimiry@questy-ubu-ENVY:~$ sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1-dev libxft-dev libexpat1-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libexpat1-dev : Depends: libexpat1 (= 2.0.1-7.2ubuntu1.1) but 2.1.0-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
vladimiry@questy-ubu-ENVY:~$ sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1-dev libxft-dev libexpat1-dev libexpat1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libexpat1 is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libexpat1-dev : Depends: libexpat1 (= 2.0.1-7.2ubuntu1.1) but 2.1.0-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.